The Ten Commandments
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And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your hearing today, that you may learn them and be careful to observe them.
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a "The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
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"The LORD b did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, those who are here today, all of us who are alive.
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c "The LORD talked with you face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire.
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d "I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD; for e you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up the mountain. He said:
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f 'I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
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g 'You shall have no other gods before Me.
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h 'You shall not make for yourself a carved image - any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;
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you shall not i bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
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j but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
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k 'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
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l 'Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.
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m Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
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but the seventh day is the n Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
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o And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there p by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
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q 'Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, r that your days may be long, and that it may be well with s you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.
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t 'You shall not murder.
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u 'You shall not commit adultery.
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v 'You shall not steal.
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w 'You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
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x 'You shall not covet your neighbor's wife; and you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, his male servant, his female servant, his ox, his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.'
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"These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly, in the mountain from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and He added no more. And y He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
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z "So it was, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders.
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"And you said: 'Surely the LORD our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and a we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire. We have seen this day that God speaks with man; yet he b still lives.
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'Now therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; c if we hear the voice of the LORD our God anymore, then we shall die.
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d 'For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
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'You go near and hear all that the LORD our God may say, and e tell us all that the LORD our God says to you, and we will hear and do it.'
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"Then the LORD heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me, and the LORD said to me: 'I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. f They are right in all that they have spoken.
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g 'Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear Me and h always keep all My commandments, i that it might be well with them and with their children forever!
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'Go and say to them, "Return to your tents."
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'But as for you, stand here by Me, j and I will speak to you all the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which you shall teach them, that they may observe them in the land which I am giving them to possess.'
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"Therefore you shall be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; k you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
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"You shall walk in l all the ways which the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live m and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.
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Exodus 19:5
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.
Deuteronomy 4:23
Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God which He made with you, and make for yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which the LORD your God has forbidden you.
Malachi 4:4
Remember the Law of Moses, My servant, Which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, With the statutes and judgments.
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Jeremiah 31:32
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD.
Matthew 13:17
For assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.
Hebrews 8:9
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the LORD.
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Exodus 19:9
And the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I come to you in the thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and believe you forever." So Moses told the words of the people to the LORD.
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Exodus 20:21
So the people stood afar off, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.
Galatians 3:19
What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator.
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Exodus 19:16
Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled.
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Exodus 20:2 - 17
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Leviticus 26:1
You shall not make idols for yourselves; neither a carved image nor a sacred pillar shall you rear up for yourselves; nor shall you set up an engraved stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 6:4
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one!
Psalms 81:10
I am the LORD your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt; Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
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Exodus 20:2
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Exodus 20:3
You shall have no other gods before Me.
Exodus 23:13
And in all that I have said to you, be circumspect and make no mention of the name of other gods, nor let it be heard from your mouth.
Hosea 13:4
Yet I am the LORD your God Ever since the land of Egypt, And you shall know no God but Me; For there is no savior besides Me.
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Exodus 20:4
You shall not make for yourself a carved image - any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
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Exodus 34:7
"keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and the fourth generation."
Exodus 34:14 - 16
(for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God).
Numbers 14:18
'The LORD is longsuffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He by no means clears the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.'
Deuteronomy 7:10
And He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to his face.
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Numbers 14:18
'The LORD is longsuffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He by no means clears the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.'
Deuteronomy 7:9
Therefore know that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments.
Jeremiah 32:18
You show lovingkindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them - the Great, the Mighty God, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
Daniel 9:4
And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made confession, and said, "O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments.
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Exodus 20:7
You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
Leviticus 19:12
And you shall not swear by My name falsely, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.
Deuteronomy 6:13
You shall fear the LORD your God and serve Him, and shall take oaths in His name.
Deuteronomy 10:20
You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve Him, and to Him you shall hold fast, and take oaths in His name.
Matthew 5:33
"Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform your oaths to the Lord.'
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Exodus 20:8
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Ezekiel 20:12
Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.
Mark 2:27
And He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.
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Exodus 23:12
Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female servant and the stranger may be refreshed.
Exodus 35:2
Work shall be done for six days, but the seventh day shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.
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Genesis 2:2
And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
Exodus 16:29
"See! For the LORD has given you the Sabbath; therefore He gives you on the sixth day bread for two days. Let every man remain in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day."
Hebrews 4:4
For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all His works".
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Deuteronomy 15:15
You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this thing today.
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Deuteronomy 4:34
Or did God ever try to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Deuteronomy 4:37
And because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them; and He brought you out of Egypt with His Presence, with His mighty power.
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Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and your mother, that your da...
Leviticus 19:3
Every one of you shall revere his mother and hi...
Matthew 15:4
"For God commanded, saying, 'Honor your father ...
Ephesians 6:2
Honor your father and mother," which is the fir...
Ephesians 6:3
"that it may be well with you and you may live ...
Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in all things, for ...
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Deuteronomy 6:2
That you may fear the LORD your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.
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Deuteronomy 4:40
"You shall therefore keep His statutes and His commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which the LORD your God is giving you for all time."
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Exodus 20:13
You shall not murder.
Matthew 5:21
"You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not murder, and whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.'
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Exodus 20:14
You shall not commit adultery.
Mark 10:19
"You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery,' 'Do not murder,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not bear false witness,' 'Do not defraud,' 'Honor your father and your mother.'"
Luke 18:20
"You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery,' 'Do not murder,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not bear false witness,' 'Honor your father and your mother.'"
Romans 13:9
For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not bear false witness," "You shall not covet," and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
James 2:11
For He who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
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Exodus 20:15
You shall not steal.
Leviticus 19:11
You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.
Romans 13:9
For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not bear false witness," "You shall not covet," and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
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Exodus 20:16
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Exodus 23:1
You shall not circulate a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Matthew 19:18
He said to Him, "Which ones?" Jesus said, " 'You shall not murder,' 'You shall not commit adultery,' 'You shall not steal,' 'You shall not bear false witness.
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Exodus 20:17
"You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."
Romans 7:7
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, "You shall not covet.
Romans 13:9
For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not bear false witness," "You shall not covet," and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
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Exodus 24:12
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Come up to Me on the mountain and be there; and I will give you tablets of stone, and the law and commandments which I have written, that you may teach them.
Exodus 31:18
And when He had made an end of speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.
Deuteronomy 4:13
So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone.
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Exodus 20:18
Now all the people witnessed the thunderings, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood afar off.
Exodus 20:19
Then they said to Moses, "You speak with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
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Exodus 19:19
And when the blast of the trumpet sounded long and became louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by voice.
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Deuteronomy 4:33
Did any people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
Judges 13:22
And Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, because we have seen God!
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Exodus 20:18
Now all the people witnessed the thunderings, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood afar off.
Exodus 20:19
Then they said to Moses, "You speak with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
Deuteronomy 18:16
"according to all you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, 'Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die.'
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Deuteronomy 4:33
Did any people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
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Exodus 20:19
Then they said to Moses, "You speak with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
Hebrews 12:19
And the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore.
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Deuteronomy 18:17
And the LORD said to me: 'What they have spoken is good.
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Deuteronomy 32:29
Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!
Psalms 81:13
Oh, that My people would listen to Me, That Israel would walk in My ways!
Isaiah 48:18
Oh, that you had heeded My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
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Deuteronomy 11:1
Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always.
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Deuteronomy 4:40
"You shall therefore keep His statutes and His commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which the LORD your God is giving you for all time."
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Galatians 3:19
What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator.
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Deuteronomy 17:20
That his heart may not be lifted above his brethren, that he may not turn aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left, and that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children in the midst of Israel.
Deuteronomy 28:14
So you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right or the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
Joshua 1:7
Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go.
Joshua 23:6
Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, lest you turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left.
Proverbs 4:27
Do not turn to the right or the left; Remove your foot from evil.
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Deuteronomy 10:12
And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Psalms 119:3
They also do no iniquity; They walk in His ways.
Jeremiah 7:23
"But this is what I commanded them, saying, 'Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.'
Luke 1:6
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
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Deuteronomy 4:40
"You shall therefore keep His statutes and His commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which the LORD your God is giving you for all time."
Ephesians 6:3
"that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth."
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